Charles Emil Kany

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Charles Emil Kany (* 1895 in Dolgeville , Herkimer County , † August 9, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist of Czech descent.

life and work

Kany studied at the University of Michigan until 1917 , received his master's degree from Harvard University in 1918, and received his doctorate there in 1920 with the thesis The Beginnings of the Epistolary Novel in France, Spain and Italy (Berkeley 1937). He taught for two years at Bryn Mawr College and in 1922 went to the University of California at Berkeley . There he was professor of Spanish from 1943 until his retirement in 1962.

In 1928 he received a Guggenheim grant .

Works

Hispanic trilogy

  • American-Spanish Syntax , Chicago 1945, 1951 (Spanish: Sintaxis hispanoamericana , Madrid 1969, 1976, 1994)
  • American-Spanish Semantics , Berkeley 1960 (Spanish: Semántica Hispano-americana , Madrid 1962)
  • American-Spanish Euphemisms , Berkeley 1960

Speech language learning

  • Spoken Spanish for Flying Cadets and our Armed Forces , Boston 1942
  • Spoken Spanish for Travelers and Students , Boston 1943
  • (with Fidelino de Figueiredo) Advanced Portuguese conversation , Boston 1943
  • (with Christian F. Melz) Spoken German for travelers and tourists , Boston 1946
  • (with Charles Speroni ) Spoken Italian for students and travelers , Boston 1946
  • Spoken Russian for Students and Travelers , Boston 1951

Other works

  • (Ed.) Ramón de la Cruz, Ocho sainetes inéditos , Berkeley / London 1925
    • (Ed.) Five sainetes of Ramón de la Cruz , Boston 1926
  • Fiestas y costumbres españolas , Boston 1929
  • Life and manners in Madrid 1750-1800 , Berkeley 1932
  • (Ed.) Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Rosina es frágil , Boston 1938
  • Practical Spanish Grammar , Boston 1951

literature

  • Romance Philology 22, 1968–1969, p. 35 (obituary)

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personal data
SURNAME Kany, Charles Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Czech descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolgeville , Herkimer County
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1968
Place of death los Angeles